Broom.



(}E.A.I1.IIZ|IES DAL POGGETTO, OF SONOMA; CALIFORNIA.

BROOM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

Application filed June 13, 1918. Serial No. 239,699.

To all whom t may concern.' i

Be it known that I, CHARLES DAL Pos- GET'ro, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Sonoma, in the county of ISonoma and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brooms; and I do declare the following to be a clear, full, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates to improvements in brooms of the type used for ordinary floor and carpet sweeping, the yprincipal object being to produce a broom in which the construction provides much greater exibility than the present type and which eliminates the tendency to crack or break the strands at the point where the same are secured to the handle of the broom, as is the case with the present type, and without using any greater length of straws.

A further obj ect of the invention is to provide a broom which will lighten the labor of the housewife or servant manipulating the same, and which will give longer and better service than can at present be obtained.

A still further object of the invention is to produce a broom which will be cheaper to construct than the types now in use, and at the same time prove most vefficient for the purposes for which-it is designed.

These objects, I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of the parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

On the drawings, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved broom, the handle thereof being broken oft.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of thesame.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the handle of the broom having a pointed lower end 2. Around the lower end of the handle 1 are bound the longest strands of a broom portion 3 by means of suitable binding material 4, the ends of the same being nailed to the handle 1, as at 5.

Below the binding 4, the broom is divided into a plurality of bunches 6, the strands of each one being bound together by themselves with binding material 7, the central one of these bunches being bound about the pointed end of the handle 1 and nailed thereto and containing the shorter of the broom straws.

A suitable distance below the binding of the separate bunches, the same are merged Atogether to form a single sweeping portion of suitable height and width, as at 8, by means of suitable binding means 9, the same passing around the outside of the broom and beingconnected therethrough by stitches 10, as in the brooms now used, thus holding the same in a firm manner, and yet not detracting from the flexibility thereof.

If desired, a bright metal cap or similar article may be slipped over the top of the portion 3, thus containingthe ends in position and presenting a more finished appearance.

This construction enables me to produce a very much more limber and flexible broom than is obtained with the present method of manufacture. With my improved broom, I am able to bend the same as far as the end of the handle in the center, and even more so on the sides, whereas in the present form the flexibility stops at the lower binding owing to the bunching of the straw thereabove and the fact that a good many of the straws are turned toward the handle almost at right angles, forming a sort of brace against flexible movement thereof. Also the greater the length of the iexibility of a broom, the greater the ease of manipulating` the same, and the longer it may be used without being considered worn out, as the straws from which all such brooms are made are brittle to a certain extent, and the shorter the length of the fiexible portion, the more apt are these straws to break oif when pressure is applied to the broom.

From the foregoing description it will readily be seen that Ihave produced such a device as substantially fulfils the objects ofthe invention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice, such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit oit the invention, as dened by the appended C 8.1m

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A broom comprising a handle having a pointed lower end, and a broom straw sweepin portion bound into shape and being divi ed into a plurality of separate units or bunches above the said binding, the short straws in the sweeping portion being centrally located to form the central bunch and being bound around and secured to the pointed end of the handle, and the longer straws in the sweeping portion forming the outer bunches, each bunch beinglbound within itself substantially on a line with the binding of the central bunch, and having their upper extremities merged together and bound around and secured to the handle above the central bunch.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES DAL POGGETTO.

Witnesses VERADINE WARNER, BERNARD PRIVAT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C." 

